---
type: "Bill"
title: "Defendant Access to Evidence Amendments"
description: "Defendant Access to Evidence Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "Utah SB 194 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Correctional Facilities", "Criminal Procedure", "Inmates", "Judicial Operations", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pitcher, Stephanie"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 38
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-29T21:37:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T01:45:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d8fc02f-353c-4724-a423-6cbc4585f2f4"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0194.html"
source_hash: "8009ea1648b4440b922f06f0a47437f5d141cef77793e9c7efc220479f0101e5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah SB 194 (2025) — Defendant Access to Evidence Amendments

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0194.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0194 To SB0194S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB194H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB194H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB194S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB194S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0194S01.xml)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0194.xml)

## Sponsors

- Pitcher, Stephanie — primary (person)
- Clancy, Tyler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-29T21:37:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-29T21:37:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-30T14:40:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-30T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-31T18:25:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03T15:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T16:21:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-21T22:33:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T22:35:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T21:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24T21:24:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-24T22:10:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-24T22:11:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-24T22:13:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-24T22:13:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-25T00:12:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T17:09:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-26T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T00:27:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T17:15:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T21:29:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07T01:34:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07T01:35:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-07T01:48:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T01:51:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-07T01:51:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-07T01:51:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T22:41:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T22:41:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T18:11:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T18:11:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:16:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:16:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T01:45:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d8fc02f-353c-4724-a423-6cbc4585f2f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).